The art-collecting industrialist Henry Frick tried to commission a portrait from the famed artist, to no avail.

An ambitious young artist, an amoral beauty. Hamish Bowles looks at the portrait that caused a scandal and almost ruined two ...

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys the first 10 years of a precocious painter getting his start in Paris.

If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. John Singer Sargent was just 18 when he arrived in Paris in 1874. In the ensuing decade, he would not only ...

NEW YORK — “Sargent & Paris,” just-opened at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the John Singer Sargent exhibition I‘ve been waiting for but never knew it. That’s partly because ...

A soon-to-open exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Sargent and Paris,” is centered on a hometown perennial, John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X” (1884). New Yorkers have come to well know the ...

A visitor to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston contemplates John Singer Sargent's painting "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit." (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) A massive masterpiece by famed painter John ...

In 1884, a decade after he had arrived in Paris as a precocious 18-year-old, John Singer Sargent unveiled a portrait of a Louisiana-born Creole woman named Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau at the ...